<p>i was hearing from friends not to have any photos on facebook or anything with red beer pong cups..or alcohol...even if its off campus...is this true? what are the rules regarding this? i thought it was just if it was on campus..</p>
<p>They don’t care much, but your future bosses or anyone that you’re applying for anything with might care because of the image it would give their company/program.</p>
<p>just private your profile…</p>
<p>The only people that will care about those things on your Facebook are your parents and employers who look at Facebook Profiles before hiring.</p>
<p>oh…ive heard employers have programs that can see your pictures even if they are on private??</p>
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<p>and don’t add parents, faculty, and co-workers because then you have to be careful about what you post or people post about you. i think it’s weird when people have their parents on facebook.</p>
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<p>not true. whoever told you that is an idiot, or thought you were too dumb that you would believe it.</p>
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oh…ive heard employers have programs that can see your pictures even if they are on private??
not true. whoever told you that is an idiot, or thought you were too dumb that you would believe it. </p>
<p>Well the person who told me that there are programs to get past private…was my orientation leader as well as my department counselorr during orientation…they werent just saying it to me…they just said becareful what you post on fb to the group and that there ARE programs out there</p>
<p>be safe and take the pictures that have beer bottles and red cups out.<br>
there can still be picture of you and your friends drunk at parties, just make the pictures sans-alcohol.</p>
<p>Employers do have access to your photos and they don’t. Its a cat-and-mouse game. No one can honestly say Facebook hasn’t been hacked. </p>
<p>Its really a matter of who has access to sophisticated software, whether they’ll share it, and how long before its patched. Modern Facebook is supposed to be secure but who knows?</p>
<p>Also, depending on your privacy settings, employers may not even have to hack your account. They could add your friends at random. If you’re the type of person, you might even add the anonymous employer you don’t know.</p>
<p>I’ve seen several companies that specialize in gathering information for potential employers via Facebook, one was actually started by a few alum of my old university.</p>
<p>I would assume they do it by having a database of fake users with thousands of friends each, which allows them to get into those networks. </p>
<p>I would also assume that they are regional, which means that by having 100 fake users with 500 friends each within the LA area, they probably have access to thousands of college-aged students in LA.</p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t rely on the shield of privacy in any case.</p>
<p>Simple solution, just don’t post those kinds of pics unless you’re 21+ years old. I only have one pic on mine of me with alcohol, and it’s in a bar, sitting, holding a drink in my hand, with my ID sitting in front of me, from my 21st birthday.</p>
<p>Keep the wild partying pictures for the scrapbook, not for public viewing.</p>
<p>After looking into it, it turns out Facebook is actually very insecure and there are dozens of simple, unsophisticated hacks floating around that can expose your private pictures. </p>
<p>Most of these hacks are regularly obsoleted but it doesn’t take much effort to patch them. Often, Facebook just changes the picture URLs. The old source code of some of these hacks are actually openly available online.</p>
<p>(In other words, no, I don’t think an actual company needs to add people at random.)</p>